Podcasts: Bill Newman
Bill Newman
The Bill Newman Show. Weekdays at 9AM. Join Bill & Monte Belmonte as they talk with news-makers, elected officials, authors, artists, poets, and ‘fish wrap’ about the day’s headlines.
Recent guests include authors Senator Elizabeth Warren (Persist); Larry Tye (Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy); Daniel James Brown (Facing the Mountain); Chuck Collins (The Wealth Hoarders and Born on Third Base).
God Help Us. It’s The Comedy Quiz.
4/21: Pastor Sarah Buteux poses existential questions to Kelsey Flynn,
Monte Belmonte, and Pam Victor. Then, Kelsey Freeman, author of “No Option But North: The Migrant World and the Perilous Path Across the Border.”
How Easthampton Is Weathering The Storm
4/20: Mayor’s Monday with Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle. Than, Black in the Valley with special guest Sister Anna Mohammed.
The Unemployment Crisis
4/17: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on unemployment, decarceration, food insecurity, and the functioning of state government; MTA Vice-President Max Page on new federal funding for UMass. Amherst; Donnabelle Casis, Zach Torrin, and Anja Shutz on DIY Masks of Western Mass.–over 10,000 people strong!
Forget “Tiger King,” Meet Netflix real-life hero from Northampton
4/16: “How to Fix a Drug Scandal” with hero-attorney Luke Ryan of Northampton, former head of the Western Massachuetts U.S. Attorney’s Office, John Pucci, and Florence-based Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott.
Democracy & Demagoguery
4/15: MHC Professor of Government Chris Pyle on Trump’s coronavirus-related claim that his authority as President is ” total. And that’s the way it’s got to be.” Sarah Urist Greene, author of “You are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation,” on cool things to create in this age of quarantines.
How will Hampshire College survive COVID-19?
4/14: Hampshire College President Ed Wingenbach on covid 19’s effect on his college and its future; then, Talkin’ Baseball with the Duke, local baseball historian Duke Goldman, on MLB this summer and next (or not) and the East-West All-Star Game.
Northampton’s Mayor has a new puppy. And some other news.
4/13: Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz shares his new warm puppy story and oh well, as long as we have him on the show, how the city is dealing with covid-19; then, Northampton-based political novelist Ellen Meeropol, author of “Her Sister’s Tatoo,” the story of a family torn apart by the Vietnam War and anti-war activism
The Legions of Unemployed
4/10: Representative Mindy Domb on combating the economic hardships in Massachusetts today; MTA Vice-President Max Page on coronavirus’ effect on public education; Donnabelle Casis, ArtBeat host, and her son on his producing hundreds of plastic shields for health care workers at local hospitals on his 3-D printer at home.
Help Raise Money for The Cooley COVID-19 Emergency Fund
4/8: The local hospital’s response to covid-19: from Greenfield Savings Bank — CEO John Howland, and Paul Benjamin; from Cooley Dickinson Health Care — Diane Duquette and CEO Joanne Marquesee; and from its Board of Trustees –Sally Griggs.
Coming Together (While Apart) To Feed Our Friends
4/7: Heidi Nortonsmith, Exec.Dir., Northampton Survival Center, Alisa Klein, Exec. Dir., Grow Food Northampton, Clare Higgins, Exec. Dir., Community Action of Pioneer Valley, Marty Wohl, founder Local Roots Care, on the Emergency Food Project, the community response to covid-19. Then, Hampshire College professor emeritus Michael Klare on pandemics now and in the future.
